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Automated antispam software can only do so much, so the four e-mail giants have started to employ a new weapon: humans. People, it seems, learn the rules of this new battlefield faster than machines do. At AOL's new control facility in Gainesville, Va., home to its antispam special-forces unit, workers like Anna Ford scan screens that show blocks of mail entering the system. She's looking, Matrix-like, for suspicious patterns. "Here's someone sending 50 e-mails to 3,000 recipients," says Ford. "That stinks." With one click, the sender is identified as a China-based...
Spoofed or otherwise, the spam that makes it to your In box is just the tip of the iceberg. At the four major e-mail providers--MSN (including Hotmail), Yahoo, EarthLink and AOL (which, like this magazine, is owned by AOL Time Warner)--between 40% and 70% of all incoming mail is killed upon arrival at their mail servers. But this has spawned a kind of spam arms race: the more mail is blocked, the more spammers send, in hopes that some will get through. As a result, the performance of the mail servers is starting to suffer. Two months...
...mail providers are trying to tap into a little of that anger by enlisting the help of aggrieved users. REPORT SPAM buttons now adorn all e-mails in AOL, EarthLink and MSN software, and AOL alone receives 9 million reports a day. That may not be enough to stop the Carmacks of the world, but anything that saves us from a few more cable-descrambler ads can't be all bad. --With reporting by Kathie Klarreich/Miami, Sean Scully/Los Angeles, Eric Roston/Washington, Simon Crittle/New York and Noah Isackson/Chicago
...SETTLED. AOL TIME WARNER'S LAWSUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT, with a cooperation agreement that ends a bitter rivalry between the companies. Microsoft will pay AOL $750 million to settle the antitrust suit brought by its Netscape unit and will grant AOL a seven-year license for use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser...
...What’s important is not to dribble away these resources,” she said, adding that Fonda’s heavy investment in ailing AOL Time Warner stocks made the actress reluctant to give to a program that had shown no progress...